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"Practice the attitude of gratitude." — Norman Vincent Peale
Source: Dr. Stan Toler, ed., Pastor's Little Instruction Book.
"Dear Lord,
When I am wrong, make me easy to change;
When I am right, make me easy to live with."
— Peter Marshall
Source: Dr. Stan Toler, ed., Pastor's Little Instruction Book.
Topics/Tags: Prayer; Willingness; Attitude
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired … with enthusiasm."
—Jim Zabloski
Source: Zabloski, 25 Most Common Problems in Business, Broadman-Holman 1996, p. 133.
Topics/Tags: Enthusiasm; Work; Attitude; Motivation
TAKING RISKS
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To love is to risk dying inside, a little bit at a time.
To hope is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Persons who risk nothing, do nothing, and have nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes, they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom.
Only those persons who risk are free.
—Author Unknown
Source: "Pastor's Helper" email discussion list.
Topics/Tags: Risk-taking; Attitude
Think positively!
The Israelite soldiers thought, "Goliath's so big we can never kill him."
David thought, "He's so big I can't miss!"
Source: John Maxwell, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1998
Topics/Tags: Attitude; Aim; Expectations; Optimism
If we can enter into our trials and temptations, our spiritual darkness and dry spells, with an attitude of gratitude, they will cease to be horrible experiences from which we try to run away.
—John Michael Talbot
If we had no winter; the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
—Anne Bradstreet (C. 1612-1672)
If you carry the cross willingly, it will carry you. If you are forced against your will to carry the cross, then you make it difficult for yourself, adding to your load. No matter what attitude you have, you must bear the burden. If you manage to throw away one cross, you will certainly find another; and it may be even heavier.
—Thomas A Kempis (C. 1380-1471)
Source: Edythe Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1992). Entries 181-183
Topics/Tags: Adversity; Trials; Prosperity; Attitude
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.
William Penn (1644-1718)
One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the one hundred and one different things that might happen.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963)
One's attitude toward a handicap determines its impact on his life.
James C. Dobson (1936- )
Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems. . . create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
M. Scott Peck (1936- )
Source: Edythe Draper, Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1992). Entries 199-202
In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less, a 10 year old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and sat at a table. A waitress put a glass of water in front of him. "How much is an ice cream sundae?"
"Fifty cents," replied the waitress. The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket and studied a number of coins in it. "How much is a dish of plain ice cream?" he inquired. Some people were now waiting for a table and the waitress was a bit impatient. "Thirty-five cents," she said brusquely.
The little boy again counted the coins. "I'll have the plain ice cream," he said.
The waitress brought the ice cream, put the bill on the table without saying a word, and walked away. The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and departed.
When the waitress came back, she began wiping down the table and then swallowed hard at what she saw. There, placed neatly beside the empty dish, were two nickels and five pennies—- her tip.
Source: Bradford, Steven [BradfordS@TCICOMM.COM], 2/2/1999.
Topics/Tags: Kindness; Generosity; Attitude
A Sunday School teacher asked her young scholars if anyone could tell the class what the Beatitudes are. While the rest of the class thought about the possible answer, little Suzy, raised her hand excitedly, fairly bursting with the answer. "OH, teacher, I know, I know, I know! The Beatitudes are the attitudes we ought to be at!"
Source: Silverius F. Galvan, "Inner Peace," in "Preach!" email discussion list, 1/29/1999.
Topics/Tags: Attitude; Beatitudes
If you can start the day without caffeine,
If you can get going without pep pills,
If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches & pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,
If you can overlook it when those you love take it out on you when, though no fault of yours, something goes wrong,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can ignore a friends limited education and never correct him/her,
If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,
If you can face the world without lies and deceit,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,
Then, my friend, you are ALMOST as good as your dog.
Source: John N. Walls. In "Pastor's Helper" email discussion list, 3/20/1999.
Topics/Tags: Perseverance; Dog; Optimism; Attitude
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